“Grocery workers say they can’t get coronavirus vaccines, even as they help distribute them,” the Washington Put up headline reads. However because the story makes clear, grocery employees don’t “say” they’ll’t get vaccines. They can’t. Until they’re aged or have comorbidities along with being grocery employees—i.e., except they’re eligible for vaccination for causes apart from being among the many front-line employees who’ve saved us all going this final almost a 12 months—grocery employees don’t get vaccination precedence besides in 13 states. In the meantime, pharmacies in some grocery shops are administering the vaccinations the employees can’t get.
“In fact health-care employees ought to get the vaccine first, that’s not a query,” one California employee mentioned. “However how many individuals am I uncovered to in a day? Tons of. Sick or properly? I don’t know. Clients are available with masks below their nostril, sipping their espresso as they stroll round.”
In 11 states there’s no plan to offer grocery employees any precedence for vaccination, whereas in Tennessee they’re on the identical precedence stage as in a single day camp counselors.
